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SOPHIA PATHWAYS Introduction to Ethics Unit 4 Challenge 4.2 Engaging Ethics Philosophically.
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SOPHIA PATHWAYS Introduction to Ethics Unit 4 Challenge 4.2 Engaging Ethics Philosophically.
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Challenge 4.3 Case Studies in Philosophical Ethics"Colonialism is morally wrong because the greater good of European settlers disproportionately outweighed the greater good of the indigenous people."
To which theory of ethics is the person who made this statement likely appealing?
Utilitarianism
"Colonialism is morally wrong because it did not consider the humanity of people being colonized and used them as free labor."
To which theory of ethics is the person who made this statement likely appealing?
Kantian deontology
"Colonialism is morally wrong because it strips indigenous people of their own customs and cultures for that of the settler's beliefs."
To which theory of ethics is the person who made this statement likely appealing?
Virtue-based ethics
"Genetic screening is morally acceptable based on it's consequences; discarding embryos is morally neutral, and embryos are not children."
To which theory of ethics is the person who made this statement likely appealing?
Utilitarianism
"Genetic screening is morally wrong if it privileges an able-bodied child over one with disabilities. Privileging an able-bodied life over a disable one is vice, not virtue."
To which theory of ethics is the person who made this statement likely appealing?
Virtue-based ethics
"It is morally acceptable for a potential mother to have genetic screening to see if an embryo is nonviable since her life could be at risk if it is not viable, but not acceptable to screen for disabilities that do not affect viability."
To which theory of ethics is the person who made this statement likely appealing? Virtue-based ethics
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